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Abdul R Shiil

Co-Founder & Director,
Sahan Cares

🔗LinkedIn
📍London, United Kingdom
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Abdul R Shiil is the Co-Founder and Director of Sahan Cares, a UK-based social enterprise delivering regulated healthcare and support services to older and disabled people.
Founded in 2012 and built without venture capital or philanthropic funding, Sahan Cares has grown into a workforce of over 90 employees, all from refugee backgrounds. The organisation has created more than 400 jobs, trained over 600 women in health and social care, and delivered over one million hours of essential care. What distinguishes Sahan Cares is not the mission, but the results. The organisation achieves 92% workforce retention in a sector where the industry average is 27%, demonstrating how investing properly in people through support, flexibility, and progression directly improves service quality, stability, and cost efficiency in essential services. This performance differential has been sustained over 13 years across policy shifts and economic cycles.>BR>Abdul's work sits at the intersection of healthcare delivery, workforce design, migration, and place-based systems. His focus is on how overlooked labour markets, when structured correctly, can become some of the most reliable workforces in the economy.
Alongside leading Sahan Cares, Abdul is completing doctoral studies focused on digital inclusion and online participation among ageing populations. He was named UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 and serves as a Board Member of ActionAid UK.

Daan Spaargaren

Senior Responsible Investment Strategist,
PME pensioenfonds

🔗LinkedIn
📍Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Daan Spaargaren (1981) is Senior Responsible Investment Strategist at PME Pension Fund, which manages approximately €60 billion on behalf of participants and pensioners in the Dutch metal and high-tech sectors. PME represents a wide range of companies, including technology leaders such as ASML and NXP, as well as firms active in renewable energy. Daan focuses on how investors can contribute to a more future-proof economy without compromising returns. Issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and geopolitical shifts pose material financial risks to companies and therefore to long-term investors like PME. His work centers on deploying capital in ways that support both stable pension outcomes and the economic transitions needed to sustain long-term value creation. He also strongly believes in sharing insights and experience with other investors and stakeholders, as open dialogue helps align investment decisions with both financial performance and solutions to broader societal challenges. He began his career in 2008 at Sustainalytics (now part of Morningstar), where he worked on socially responsible investment policy and controversial weapons research. In 2013, he joined Eumedion as Policy Advisor Sustainability. There, he served as secretary to the working group that drafted the first Dutch Stewardship Code and contributed to engagement with listed Dutch companies. He remains involved as a member of Eumedion’s Legal Committee. Daan regularly contributes to public debate through media appearances, columns, and podcasts, consistently emphasizing that delivering strong pensions requires prioritising both participants’ financial interests and their broader societal preferences.

Jelena Stamenkova van Rumpt

Head of Responsible Investment,
Anthos Fund & Asset Management

🔗LinkedIn
📍The Netherlands
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Jelena Stamenkova van Rumpt is a senior leader in responsible investment and sustainable finance, with more than a decade of experience integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into institutional investment strategies. She serves as a Head of Responsible Investment at Anthos Fund & Asset Management, where she leads the development and implementation of the firm’s values-based investment framework across asset classes. Her work focuses on strengthening ESG integration, stewardship, and aligning long-term capital with sustainable value creation.Prior to joining Anthos, Jelena held senior responsible investment roles at PGGM Investments, where she advanced ESG integration within front-office investment teams and led corporate engagement programmes on human rights and labour standards. Earlier in her career, she worked at Aegon Nederland, contributing to the development of responsible investment policies and governance frameworks.Jelena previously served on the Advisory Board of Net Impact Amsterdam and was a member of expert working groups at EFRAG, contributing to discussions on European sustainability reporting and responsible investment standards.She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.), summa cum laude, in International Business Law and Globalisation from Utrecht University. With a strong legal foundation and strategic perspective, Jelena is a frequent speaker at international conferences on sustainable finance, stewardship, and the evolving role of financial institutions in addressing global challenges.

Matt Ripley

Director,
Impact Frontiers

🔗LinkedIn
📍London, United Kingdom
★ Moderator

Matt is a Director of Impact Frontiers, responsible for leading research and field-building projects. Prior to Impact Frontiers, Matt was Head of Impact at The Good Economy, where he led a team supporting alternative asset managers to strengthen their impact management practices. He established The Good Economy’s impact verification and assurance service as well as advising on the fast-moving landscape for sustainability regulations and impact management norms.From 2016-2019 Matt was evaluation lead for the UK government’s flagship initiative to develop the impact investing ecosystem in the Global South. As part of this role he innovated stakeholder-centric approaches to impact measurement for UK’s development finance institution and supported the establishment of Impact Management Project.Matt spent over a decade at the United Nations working on labour rights and employment impact assessments. He was technical lead for the development of the Global Impact Investing Network's IRIS+ Quality Jobs theme.He has published widely on the topics of social impact measurement and evaluation. Matt’s articles have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Pioneers Post, as well as in peer-reviewed journals and presented at meetings of the Academy of Management. He is currently part of the guest faculty for the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at Said Business School. He holds degrees from University College London and King’s College London alongside the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

SØren Peter Andreasen

Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
Impact Fund Denmark

🔗LinkedIn
📍Copenhagen, Denmark
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Søren Peter Andreasen is an executive leader, board chair, and corporate strategy adviser recognised for his leadership and business acumen across sustainable finance and professional services. He is widely regarded as a thought leader with the ability to set far‑reaching strategies that translate market insight, business trends, and economic cycles into scalable commercial opportunities and measurable impact, within a disciplined risk framework. Søren currently serves as Deputy CEO of Impact Fund Denmark, where he plays a central role in shaping strategic direction, institutional partnerships, and investment activities across emerging and frontier markets. In parallel, Søren has been Chairman of the Board of EDFI Management Company since its establishment in 2016. In this role, he oversaw the creation of the company’s organisational, governance, and ownership structures, and led the development of policies, investment frameworks, and risk management guidelines. Under his chairmanship, EDFI Management Company has raised more than €1bn in capital across multiple blended finance mandates. Previously, Søren served as Chief Executive Officer of the Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI), where he strengthened the organisation’s role in shaping policy, advancing industry standards, and expanding investment collaboration among European DFIs. Earlier in his career, Søren founded Commons Consultants in Copenhagen, advising senior leaders on corporate strategy and innovation with a focus on emerging markets. He also co‑founded Dalberg Global Development Advisors and began his professional career at McKinsey & Company in Copenhagen.

Timothée Jaulin

Head of Responsible Investment Development & Advocacy,
Amundi Asset Management

🔗LinkedIn
📍Paris, France
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Timothée Jaulin was appointed Head of Responsible Investment Development and Advocacy as of 1st September 2020. In this position, he manages a global team contributing to responsible investment products, solutions and services’ development across Amundi business lines and investment platforms. His roles and responsibilities include managing Amundi’s advocacy work and strategic partnershipssupporting Amundi’s Responsible Investment development plans (Net Zero, impact and blended finance, etc.). He joined Amundi in 2012 as a Research Associate, and thencontributed to the setting-up and development of the Investment Solutions team before being in charge of the coverage of supranational entities globally. In his different roles, he has been closely involved in the development of some of Amundi’s flagship responsible investment solutions. Timothée was notably involved in the launch of flagship public-private partnerships such as the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition with the United Nations Environment Program, climate financedevelopment programs with the International Finance Corporation and the European Investment Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.Prior to working in Amundi Paris headquarters, Timothée worked for Amundi in London and New York and for the French Treasury in Washington D.C. Timothée is a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and holds a Master in Theoretical and Applied Economics from the Paris School of Economics.

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Sir Ronald Cohen

Chair,
The Global Steering Group (GSG)

Connect UK Keynote

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution. For nearly two decades, his ground-breaking initiatives have catalyzed global efforts to drive private capital to serve social and environmental good. He serves as Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel; and co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and Big Society Capital. He chaired the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce (2013-2015), the UK Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the UK’s Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for Social Finance. He was a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005), a global private equity firm. He was a co-founder and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a co-founder of the European Venture Capital Association. He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School; a former director of the Harvard Management Company; and formerly a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He graduated from Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship. Sir Ronald was born in Egypt and left as a refugee at the age of 11, when his family came to the UK.

Scilla Elworthy

Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize Nominee

Connect UK Keynote

Dr Scilla Elworthy turns vision into action. Today her full attention is on developing Business Plan for Peace, resulting from her 2017 book: The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War. She has been three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policymakers worldwide and their critics, with the Oxford Research Group she founded in 1982. Peace Direct, voted ‘Best New Charity’ in 2005, goes from strength to strength under brilliant young leadership, founded by Scilla in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. Scilla was adviser to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’, and was Awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003. She co-founded Rising Women Rising World in 2013, and FemmeQ in 2016 to establish the qualities of feminine intelligence - for men as for women - as essential for building a safer world. Her TED talk on non-violence has been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on TED and YouTube. Her book Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works (North Atlantic Books, 2014) continues to receive critical acclaim from experts in the field. She’s Ambassador for Peace Direct, a Councillor of the World Future Council and patron of Oxford Research Group; adviser to the Syria Campaign and the Institute for Economics and Peace. She advises the leadership of selected international corporations as well as young social entrepreneurs. Scilla is a mother, stepmother, and grandmother and loves messing about in her garden near Oxford in the UK.

Eva Halvarsson

CEO,
AP2

Connect Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, Sweden Keynote

Since 2006, Eva Halvarsson has acted as the CEO of the Second Swedish National Pension Fund -- AP2. She heads up an organization with more than SEK 345 billion (approx. USD 43 billion) under management in virtually every asset class, and one that is active in all parts of the world; AP2 is one of northern Europe's largest pension funds.Ms. Halvarsson began her career as an accountant, progressing to the point that before joining AP2, she spent ten years working for the Swedish Government where she was responsible for the governance and management of the large and extensive portfolio of state owned companies. Eva Halvarsson has had a distinguished and varied leadership career. She took part in the working group that put into effect the Swedish Corporate Governance Code in 2004. She also spent several years, serving on the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. Eva has been a board member of several large companies and has chaired the nomination committees of some of Sweden’s largest listed companies. She recently left after serving for ten years as the Deputy Chairperson of the board of the University of Gothenburg.Presently, she is board member of the UN-PRI (the United Nation´s Principles for Responsible Investments), Vasakronan (the largest real estate company in Sweden), The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development and The Royal Swedish Opera. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of the Women Entrepreneur´s Opportunity Facility, the first-ever global finance facility dedicated exclusively to women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises.Eva Halvarsson was born in 1962 and holds an MSc in Business and Economics from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Pedro Antonio Guazo Alonso

Representative of the Secretary-General for Investments and Assets,
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

Connect New York, USA Keynote Speaker

Mr. Guazo serves as the Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF). Acting Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the UNJSPF since April 2020. Mr. Guazo is Director of the Finance Division and Deputy Controller in the Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget of the United Nations Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance in New York, since 2012. He served in a similar capacity as the Director of Finance and Treasury at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome (2010-2012).With over 10 years of experience in high level management positions in the United Nations system, together with more than 17 years of experience in the private and public sectors, Mr. Guazo brings a balance of deep knowledge of the United Nations system and expertise in national, regional and global practices for financial and pension fund systems.During a 15-year banking career, he contributed to the modernization of the Mexican Financial System, while serving as its regulator and supervisor. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer at the Federal Mortgage Bank of Mexico (2008-2010), he negotiated and managed loans from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He championed financial inclusion among people with low and middle incomes as CFO and Treasurer of the National Savings and Financial Services Bank of Mexico (2001-2008). His government service included posts at the Ministry of Finance (1999-2001) and at the National Banking and Securities Commission (1996-1999), as a member of its Financial Sector Supervisory Body. He started his professional career in 1993 at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A former professor of Finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mr. Guazo received an International Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid. He earned a master's degree in Business Economics from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and graduated from ITAM in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting.

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA,

Founder, Ethical Markets Media,
Certified B Corporation

United Kingdom Keynote

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media, Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, active environmentalist, syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006); Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014), and other books in 800 libraries, in 20 languages, including “Planetary Citizenship “co-authored by Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Ethical Markets is the publisher of Henderson’s forthcoming textbook, “Mapping the Global Green Transition: 2009-2020“.

She is the producer of the global TV series “Transforming Finance“ and the Ethical Markets TV series. She created in 2004 the EthicMark® Awards for Communications Uplifting the Human Spirit & Society, showcasing positive messages to raise the ethical bar on global advertising and in 2009 the annual Green Transition Scoreboard®.

She launched the EthicMarkGEMS®.com, the first global standard certifying only gems NOT mined from Mother Earth, to phase out unnecessary global gem mining, now chemically- identical gems are cheaply available worldwide and also co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Henderson served as a cabinet-level science policy advisor to the US Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Her over 400 articles appear in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, LeMonde Diplomatique, and journals in Japan, Britain, Venezuela, China, France, Australia. Honorary Member of the Club of Rome, Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society for Arts and of The World Academy of Art & Science, Henderson shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Argentinian Nobelist Pérez Esquivel. She has many honorary degrees.

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Hon. Al Gore

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Aarno Keijzer

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Abdul R Shiil

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